So we all have our observations of blatant violations of the Makerworld Rules, we report, we sometimes get enforcement, sometimes not. But What I’m very very baffled by, is how these very very obvious rule breakers are getting placement not the homepage of MakerWorld.com, models like this one that is both in violation of the source model license, and not a real photo, yet it’s on the home page for me on both a Mac with Safari and a PC with Chrome and a totally different account logged in (my partner’s)
I can see the wisdom in a model that doesn’t have a lot of attention yet, getting a chance at the home page, but what the heck? why allow models that aren’t vetted to grace the home page? What if someone posted something horrible, is it just random or are these curated?
I reported 3 models, 1 was obviously a piece of pottery with no print profile, and the other two were very clearly AI with no possible way of printing them in that quality, and no AI Model label. The file sizes of the AI “models” were also suspiciously large. The reports were denied.
This one should be interesting: the uploader has a green checkmark (meaning MW sought them to come to MW from other platforms and verified their identity as an influencer) and has 2 MW officially featured models, so they got front page placement strangely for this Elegoo logo hat (the description tries to wash elegoo out by never mentioning it and calling it an ‘infinity’ hat) but scroll down and you have 3 sets of violations: first they advertise Chitu brand filaments, then with with affiliate links, then in the comments they’re replying to everyone asking them to go to elegoo’s site and help them win an elegoo contest and use a special hashtag to win prizes.
(for reference, it’s against the rules to advertise for a brand that isn’t your own, to post affiliate links at all for any brand including Bambu, and to run contests or promote contests offsite)
Upload a model with obvious advertising information, such as a scan code showing a non-MakerWorld platform in the IMAGE, or a service unrelated to the models
provided in the description models including
Lottery and other promotional activities without authorization
External guidance including but not limited to links or scan code to non-MakerWorld related businesses, organizations, online stores, or websites"
I stopped reporting all together months ago. I won’t even bother. If Makerworld want users to act as moderators, then pay a few people so that they can moderate it.
I could give you a list of accounts that are not affected by reports, but it would be a long list and too much time lost from my side. It’s MW rules, they play how they want and there is nothing we can do
Today I reported AI generated models from a single user with no real photos, no print profiles and model blatantly different from the AI render provided (pretty much the only image in the page). Comments full of people complaining also.
All the reports has been rejected.
Guys like these are ruining this place for honest creators and users, literally stealing Makerworld money and lowering its quality… but they are ok with that.
There is a website for creative minds called Instructables…
Back in the day I was very active there, both in terms of posting things and in terms of helping people in the forum sections.
My reasons for leaving are the same Makerworld and Bambu had since day one LOL
Mind you that I left Instructables long before Bambu became known…
Which makes one wonder if those companies never learn from others or their own users…
Makerworld is based on quantity not quality and their entire site relies on bot systems, automation and users reporting offenders.
In other words > As cheap and basic as possible while maximising the revenue.
Ongoing contests with fishy rules and little to no oversight…
Rules that are not enforced unless someone reports violations…
Users can post and upload what they want without any checks…
Years of getting the same complaints won’t mean anything changes for the better, nor that anyone listens…
You have to upload and present your creations according the ‘rule book’ or your creation will never see any attention, won’t pop in Google searches, won’t be included for the search bots…
Like it or not but Bambu it provider, judge, jury and executioner here…
As long as we keep falling for their prices and keep uploading models they will make enough profit to not have to care.
My way isn’t the only way but try to see it like me for a change >
When Makerworld started the issues of people stealing (often paid for) models and providing them elsewhere as a copy or as their own creation was a long standing one.
Bambu however did not implement any measures at all other than T’s & C’s no one ever reads to prevent this.
Since day one people abused Makerworld and also abused creators posting the work there by stealing it.
Since day one the ever same complaints are being made and we keep hearing the ever same excuses while not seeing any working solutions.
Rather than fixing long standing issues makers can now make money on Makerworld - another binding measure with no real world guarantees that things will get better and of course Bambu takes a good share of the of the money.
No hoster likes to pee on another hoster’s leg…
Which is one of the main reasons they still refuse to cooperate to stem the tide and to finally go after these criminals stealing the work of creators.
So far all they do is to ban them at best but I can’t find that these criminals were ever forced to pay the stolen money back, to compensate the creator.
Doing so mean having legal costs, means to actually care and no company will waste on those things unless forced to.
Instructables managed to gain a rather dominant position and the average users will never know, same for our 3D printing hosters with benefits.
Look around - all big manufacturers now provide their own model hosting solutions, compete with those other hosters like Thingiverse, Etsy, Cgtrader and what not…
We don’t count in this game, only that we provide enough clicks and keep coming back
Just saying…
I reported an obvious rule breaking of the exclusive program, one MW constantly penalise smaller designers for (noted on the forum), yet this designer was big, thus they refused to hold that designer to the same standards.
If you are a small designer, you are held to a different higher standard than a big designer who simply gets away with everything.
MW doesn’t care what a big designer does, they appear to be exempt from all rule breaking.
MW will penalise small designers for breaking no rules by retrospectively apply rules that did not exist when they uploaded something.
MW will not penalise big designers for blatant and repeated rule breaking.
It would be great if all were treated equally but, @MakerWorld clearly favours large designers who are free to break every rule.
It would be great if @MakerWorld staff would not enforce rules that do not even exist.
It would be great if @MakerWorld staff would respond to victims of them harassing people when those victims reply, but, why would @MakerWorld be decent citizens?
Guilty until proven innocent unless you’re a big designer and then you are immune. You would think they were an American police force.
